February 8, 2012

Self-Discovery Workshops

Mobile Family

November was busy with different trips and workshops. The workshop’s topic was “Self-Discovery”. Every trip was led by the students from the district where the workshop was held along with the XMM community. Also they organized the schedule and activities for the workshops.

The main workshops were held in two districts: Bugesera and Huye with a one day trip to Nyanza district. Marty Koonce, Ndiyunze Adolph, Charles Kabeza, Willy Niyonteze, Gaethan Nsanzineza, Victory, Jado, Joseph Karimijabo and John were the speakers.

fcd_xm_2009_11_cOn last day of workshop in Huye, the main speaker was the Vice Mayor of Huye district. The fruit of these trips and workshops was very positive. Many orphans have new attitudes, increased their student scores and are making a commitment to serve their communities. Also some of who were older and uneducated decided to join schools even though they look older than students they will study with.

The main points of trip and workshops were:

  • To get to know who God’s Word says that we are.
  • To review what XMM accomplished since it started to work in those places.
  • To reward the best students.
  • To select the new students to come to the XMM education program 2010.
  • To partner with local authorities.

A selecting team was composed by four people including; one representative of a district in XMM community, two people from the board of XMM and one person from a different district (Neutral). This team was in charge of selecting and giving a test to the new students who were chosen by district orphans community, and met criteria.